• Wolf Blitzer exposes SNL with his award-winning muckraking journalism. [Hot Air]
• Hundreds of fake doctors (including Jeff Gannon) were forced to wear lab coats and say flattering things about socialized medicine. [Michelle Malkin]
• Michele Bachmann does not know anything about MSNBC. She doesn’t know how to spell MSNBC and she doesn’t want to know. She doesn’t know what MSNBC stands for, or if it stands for anything at all. Maybe it’s Spanish. She just doesn’t know. [TPM]
• Guess who wants to stick his public option in your pooper? You know who. [RedState]
• Barack Obama is the the world’s most popular dictator. [Think Progress]

It is Saturday Night Live dude Andy Samberg as your new Ballbuster-for-change, Rahm Emanuel! Supposedly this was not broadcast because it wasn’t 15 minutes long, and also has some laffs. [SNL via Fishbowl LA]

Here is one of the only non-Palin SNL skits we’ve enjoyed in recent decades: Ben Affleck mocks the crap (however inaccurately) out of that self-righteous silvery fraud, Keith Olbermann, who some of you people inexplicably enjoy. Whatever. But we can all agree that he opens himself to some friendly mockery, right, and that he could be a team player about it when and if it does happen? Well, Olbermann is of course a parody of himself in real life and has responded angrily about the evil conservatives that are bribing NBC to BRING HIM DOWN. MORE »

Here’s old Walnuts on SNL last night with Tiny Fey, as Sarah Palin. They mock their entire campaign, ha ha ha. It’s pretty funny! Especially near the end when McCain takes the floor out from under Palin’s 2012 chances. Awkward! And after the jump, another clip from Weekend Update with John McCain, because he was just bumming around that studio all night long. They probably offered him a hot meal. MORE »

You will probably all want to see this Sarah Palin bit if you want to have something to talk about over Monday Morning Bagels with Lindsay from accounting. Here it is, for your cultural betterment: Sarah Palin palling around with liberal comedy terrorists at SNL. The funnier skit is the rap, after the jump. MORE »

Well then here it is. [NBC]

To appeal to the 45-year-old bitter people who enjoy the 34-year-old Saturday Night Live teevee program because they are too old/poor to actually do anything on Saturday night, 71-year-old John McCain will make a very brief appearance on SNL at exactly 11:35 p.m. tomorrow. Apparently the show’s producers wanted to put McCain in a dress and beat the shit out of him for 15 minutes, which is the usual level of comedy on SNL, but the “maverick” said no. MORE »

Here’s the thing: Hillary is funny here, on Saturday Night Live. She is funny without bringing undue shame upon her campaign. We’ll see how this plays in Vermont, Rhode Island, Ohio and Texas.

Clinton plays cameo role on ‘Saturday Night Live’ [AP/Boston Herald]

Here’s Hillary, showing how she’s “with it” by referencing a Saturday Night Live routine, only 30 years after anybody bothered with SNL. (Our debate liveblogging is here and here.)

SNL does not hate Hillary Clinton, really. It’s just that Amy Poehler gets camera time playing her, and writers can more easily gin up skits for laughs: “Over the past year, viewers tuning into Saturday Night Live have seen Hillary Clinton depicted as a ruthless, power-hungry, arrogant witch. On the rare occasions that Barack Obama’s name is so much as mentioned, he receives gentle, if not admiring, treatment.” MORE »

SNL’s Fred Armisen impersonates lots of people. He’s delivered on the left-handed fey rock set: Liberace, Phil Spector, Lou Reed and Prince. Nailed the evil, weird quad of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vicente Fox, Hugo Chávez and Steve Jobs. He’s good, right? Now, he’s added “political comedian” Nicholas Fehn, a shaggy, stammering hipster and ADD victim: “I do the type of comedy…Basically what I do is I take headlines … I take newspapers. I read them. And I comment on them. It’s my own skewed view on things.” Imagine our massive meta moment. MORE »